12th, A. M. — Since
writing the foregoing, we have got information which leads me to think it was
probably well we were not reinforced. There would not have been enough to hold
the position we had against so great a force as the enemy brought against us.
You see we were twenty miles from their railroad, and only six to twelve hours
from their great armies. . . .
Mrs. Hayes.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 267-8
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